{"id":3073,"date":"2021-06-25T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2021-04-18T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:44:34","slug":"whodunits-a-blog-by-jim-oshea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/whodunits-a-blog-by-jim-oshea\/","title":{"rendered":"Whodunits &#8211; A blog by Jim O&#8217;Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3071\" height=\"111\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Blood-Sisgers-FB-Banner-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI love Whodunits.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlthough rarely successful, I&#39;ve always embraced the challenge of trying to figure out who the murderer is before the famous detective. I suppose Agatha Christie is the most well-known writer in this genre, but other famous names who embraced the classic British-style murder mystery include G.K. Chesterton, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, and Ellery Queen.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Whodunit presents crime as a puzzle to be solved, and rather than through a series of questions posed by the detective, readers are given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction throughout the investigation of a crime via subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle plot revelations by the author, all in an effort to outguess the expert.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMy new thriller&nbsp;is a Whodunit written more in the American crime fiction style, popularized by authors such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. Although employing the classic &quot;double narrative&quot; style of the British, American Whodunits typically feature more gritty, realistic settings and colloquial dialogue and narrative compared to their &quot;cozier&quot; British relatives.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn&nbsp;<b><i>Blood&nbsp;Sisters<\/i><\/b>, Libby Meeker believes she&#39;s seeing things. Although her identical twin&nbsp;sister&nbsp;died almost a year ago in a tragic accident, Libby is seeing Melissa outside her office window, in passing cars and buses, and even walking out of their small-town bank. When a serial murder surfaces in Norther Utah, bizarre clues and an ancient Native American artifact lead Salt Lake City Detective Troy Hunter along with the reader to Libby&#39;s doorstep&#8230;and into nearly unspeakable possibilities. Only the most skilled murder mystery reader will figure this one out!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blood Sisters\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_I2RYiOD5cFecWj&#038;asin=B08563TFZV&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I love Whodunits.&nbsp; &nbsp; Although rarely successful, I&#39;ve always embraced the challenge of trying to figure out who the murderer is before the famous detective. I suppose Agatha Christie is the most well-known writer in this genre, but other famous names who embraced the classic British-style murder mystery include G.K. Chesterton, Edmund Crispin, Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}